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SONIC REFLECTIONS: A Berliner’s Experience of Nairobi Through Music and Sound.
Sophia Bauer
March 27, 2023
Investigating social and economic influences in sound and music production
Trickling, humming, beeping: Infrastructural soundscapes and rhythms
Sophia Bauer
September 5, 2022
Moritz Kasper investigates the sound of water in Nairobi.
Nairobi by Ear
Sophia Bauer
August 6, 2022
Mariko an urban designer from Japan is discovering Nairobi through sound.
Ethics of Field Recording
Sophia Bauer
June 28, 2022
Three simple Guidelines to the our Ethics of Field Recording.
What is Unnecessary Noise?
Kamwangi Njue
December 21, 2021
The editing process determines what goes to the public archive… What is a good quality recording?
Hearing a Voice by Franziska Windisch
Sophia Bauer
November 6, 2021
For me the voice is a conundrum. It is intrinsically individual but also meant to be public….
A Recap
Raphael Kariuki
October 5, 2021
An eventful mid-year had us all in need of a break…
Launching the SON Podcast with City Dreamers
Raphael Kariuki
July 30, 2021
Launching the SON podcast with the Lutivini Majanja’s story City Dreamers…
Notes from the LISTEN! Exhibition – Sound and the City panel discussion (2019)
Kamwangi Njue
April 14, 2021
This text tries to circumnavigate and map conversations of individuals working through and along sound…
How to start a sound archive?
Raphael Kariuki
February 9, 2021
One sunny midmorning, some day in 2013 or 14, Nairobi…
How to write about sound?
Sophia Bauer
January 18, 2021
How do you write about something when often even talking about it is a challenge? …
For the record
Sophia Bauer
December 4, 2020
Today’s episode is on recording techniques. This is a very complex and wide field…
Sound to write about
Sophia Bauer
November 27, 2020
In the last year a few journalists and writers reached out to us…
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